has been graded and slabbed by Coin Grading Service UK as UNC85
AVGVR / PONT MAX
Some light surface marks and nicks
date not listed in Hazard)
41g (Peck 1376
Basil I, Gold Solidus has been graded and slabbedBasil I, The Macedonian (A. D. 867 886), Gold Solidus. Mint of Constantinople. Christ enthroned facing, wearing a nimbus cruciger, a pallium and colobium, raising His right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels, rev. facing busts of Basil, on left, and Constantine, on right, both crowned and holding between them a patriarchal cross, 4. 37g., 6h (DO 2; S 1704). An exceptional example, perfectly struck and with excellent portraits, good